Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-415-79027-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 486 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 982 g

Presenting new approaches and results previously inaccessible in English, the Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics provides an insight into the language and society of contemporary Japan from a fresh perspective.

While it was once believed that Japan was a linguistically homogenous country, research over the past two decades has shown Japan to be a multilingual and sociolinguistically diversifying country. Building on this approach, the contributors to this handbook take this further, combining Japanese and western approaches alike and producing research which is relevant to twenty-first century societies. Organised into five parts, the sections covered include:

- The languages and language varieties of Japan.

- The multilingual ecology.

- Variation, style and interaction.

- Language problems and language planning.

- Research overviews.

With contributions from across the field of Japanese sociolinguistics, this handbook will prove very useful for students and scholars of Japanese Studies, as well as sociolinguists more generally.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heinrich, Patrick

Ohara, Yumiko

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: The languages and language varieties of Japan 1. Ainu language and Ainu speakers 2. Ryukyuan sociolinguistics 3. Ryukyu-subtrate Japanese: Contact efforts on the replacing language 4. Japanese dialects 5. Koine and koineization 6. Language and migration in Japan 7. English in Japan Part II: The multilingual ecology 8. Metroethnicity: From standardized identities to language aesthetics 9. Metrolingualism in transitional Japan 10. Linguistic landscape 11. Bilingualism and bilingual education in Japan 12. Japan as a multilingual society Part III: Variation, style and interaction 13. Language variation and change 14. Code switching, language crossing and mediatized translinguistic practices 15. Language and social relations 16. Politeness 17. Impoliteness 18. Gendered speech Part IV: Language problems and language planning 19. Language policy and planning 20. Script and orthography problems 21. Literacy and illiteracy 22. Japanese language spread in the colonies and occupied territories 23. Ainu language shift 24. Language shift in the Ryukyu Islands 25. Language rights Part V: Research overviews 26. Language life (gengo seikatsu) 27. The study of Japanese language speakers 28. Studies of Ryukyu-substrate Japanese

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick Heinrich is Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Society in the Department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Before joining Ca’Foscari University, he taught in Japan (Dokkyo University) and in Germany (Duisburg-Essen University) for many years. He has been a visiting professor at Toulouse University in France and at the University of the Ryukyus in Japan. Heinrich acquired a Ph.D. in Japanese Studies from Duisburg University in 2002, and a post-doctoral degree (Habilitation) from the same university in 2005. He has co-edited a number of books in English and in Japanese: The Handbook of the Ryukyuan Languages (de Gruyter Mouton, 2015); Globalising Sociolinguistics (Routledge, 2015); Language Crisis in the Ryukyus (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014); Ryukyu shogo no hoji o mezashite [In Pursuit of Ryukyuan Language Maintenance] (CoCo Shuppan, 2014); Language Life in Japan (Routledge, 2011); Higashiajia ni okeru gengo fukko [Language Revitalization in East Asia] (Sangensha, 2010); and Japanese as Foreign Language in the Age of Globalization (Iudicium, 2008). Forthcoming edited books and journal issues include The Sociolinguistics of Urban Language Life (Routledge, 2017) and Rethinking Sociolinguistic Theory (=special issue of the International Journal of the Society of Language 2017). He has written The Making of Monolingual Japan (Multilingual Matters, 2012) and Die Rezeption der westlichen in Linguistik im Modernen Japan [The Reception of Western Linguistics in Modern Japan] (Iudicium, 2002). He is on the editorial board of several journals including International Journal of the Sociology of Language, East Asian Pragmatics, Contemporary Japan and Current Issues in Language Planning.